A Very Easy Death: A Memoir

Synopsis

A very easy death has long been considered one of simone de beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence” (the sunday telegraph). Powerful, touching, and sometimes shocking, this is an end-of-life account that no reader is likely to forget. Translated by patrick o'brian.